Rejected, then recruited for the same role
A senior engineer reconstructed 96 days of recruitment from LinkedIn and email records. Fourteen days after one rejection, a recruiter from the same company approached them for the same title.
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Invited to apply, rejected two days later
A recruiter invited a software engineer to apply. Two days later, the same email thread delivered a rejection that did not explain the reversal.
The second email, one minute later
A junior Solutions Engineer applicant tailored her materials around practical experience. A rejection followed about one minute after the confirmation.
Eight years of retail, read as a gap
A recruiter read eight years of retail as a gap because the page did not connect that work to two shipped Linux projects.
Told that "I don't know" was a bad signal
Two months of interviewing, and the feedback that came back was that being nervous and admitting a gap both counted against them.